* Posts by DF118

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Motorola, Samsung smash Apple's touchscreen patent claim

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Re: No Comment...

Just for god's sake, whatever you do, don't mention Jagwyre.

Verizon CFO: 'Unlimited' data is just a word

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'Unlimited' data is just a word

If I'm gonna die for a word, that word would be "poontang".

Made for each other: liquid nitrogen and 1,500 ping-pong balls

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Re: That's learning of today (the future)?

Cheers Buzz Killington, youre really doing a great job of reminding us how fucking boring and worthy 99% of everything is. Keep up the good work.

Mobile phones still failing to kill people – Nordic scientists

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Re: Mobile phones don't cause cancer?

It never ceases to amaze me how otherwise-sane individuals will focus on a perceived risk like this rather than the one staring them in the face, like their own obesity/fag addiction/binge drinking etc...

I used to have a hugely fat colleague who drank SlimFast shakes like they were a potion to make her thin (i.e. the more she drank the thinner she would get) but, after getting one of those flashing LED phone stand things for her desk - the ones that light up just before your phone goes off - decided she could no longer keep her mobile phone about her person as the flashing LEDs were some sort of voodoo and however they operated it was clearly bad for her health. Scary.

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...yeah anyway, as I was saying... OMG! My ear is all warm now. ARGH I MUST HAVE BRANE CANCER!

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That's all well and good Mr Scientist, but how do you KNOW, huh? How do you really KNOW our branes aren't being COOKED by our phones, eh?! These things MUST BE DANGEROUS because wee hold them right next to our face and our BRANES are inside there!

Hang on while I take this call...

Windows Phone 8 stands a chance as Apple, Android dither

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Re: Contact cards

Sorry, WP8

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Re: Contact cards

@ Boris Winkle, HMB:

Just thinking the exact same thing. Seems some commentards will downvote you simply because of your choice of handset.

Wonder what it would take to create a bunch of native apps to detect and downvote/upvote all comments in these threads automatically, and would it be worth developing one for W8?

Ten USB 3.0 HDD enclosures

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Re: Why blue LEDs?

My theory on blue LEDs is that the world (as in the world outside of R&D labs) had to put up with boring red dome LEDs for decades, then green ones came along, which were mildly distracting, then yellow, orange, multicoloured and white ones, but they were all rather boring. Mankind's nature is to want what he can't have and for a very long time in the world of LEDs, that thing was the colour blue.

Finally, along came blue LEDs. They were dazzling and bright and shiny and above all very expensive. If your project or gadget had a blue LED it was cool, period. The delayed gratification that happened with blue LEDs elevated them briefly to uber-cool status. Now blue LEDs are cheap, but the coolness factor hasn't decayed enough. At least it hasn't as far as product designers are concerned. After all, they are the same people who drooled longingly at the blue LEDs in the RS catalogue while everyone else was busy thumbing their mum's Littlewoods one, and consequently every new piece of PC hardware we buy has more and more of the fucking things. I can see five right now from where I'm sitting, and that's only because six of my motherboard's eight power phases are idle right now. If I start up a 3D app, this place lights up like bloody Heathrow.

Apple wins second round of Samsung patent slugfest

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Agree mostly with that, which is why I made no value judgement on Woz's statement.

> Woz ... got lucky with whom he partnered in business.

Likewise you could say Jobs also got lucky - very lucky - with whom he partnered in business. If not for guys like Woz then guys like Steve go nowhere, and vice versa. For startups, it's the genius/spoiled/lucky engineers' free exchange of ideas that creates the products to be sold in the first place. There has to be a bit of give and take. Apple is busy killing that ethos for corporate gain. It's shitty behaviour, but it's what corporations do and whilst it won't be the end of Apple, they will become Microsoft. All that remains to figure out is whether or not Google will beat them to it.

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Boffin

And just for clarification on my original comment: when I said " I thought I'd seen blinkered fanboyism here on the Reg" I was referring to both the Apple and Google/Android variety. I don't dig these special spellings and intonations you crazy kids have for telling the two apart.

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Re: They are right

@AC 22:54

What's this? The enemy of my friend is my enemy? I'm the first to admit I'm no fan of Apple, but I'm equally no fan of Android either. I was referring to the shitbrained Woz-haters on the MDN article's comments. Either you didn't bother checking that out, or you did, chose to interpret my comment as anti-Apple rhetoric and arrived at the retarded, blinkered fanboy conclusion that I must of course be a "Fandroid". Either way you're a blithering idiot.

Man, the quality of comments here is going further down the tubes every day.

With apologies to everyone here who is not AC 22:54 or his/her ilk.

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Coffee/keyboard

Lol @ the comments on that MDN article. I thought I'd seen blinkered fanboyism here on the Reg but apparently this is just the tip of the crazy people iceberg.

German court turkey-slaps Motorola in patent case

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Paris Hilton

Re: @DF118

Duckie, if you had any idea of the quantity of sausage I've choked down in my time you wouldn't be saying that.

No, for comic effect I deliberately inferred from your original comment a certain soupson of sexual repression. That you took it to be homophobic says more about you than it does me.

Paris; I hear she is also a fan of the sausage.

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Gimp

Re: Ahhhh...

Glad you can get your jollies from the successes of a multi-billion dollar corporate entity whose fortunes presumably (going by the fact you're here posting comments) have zero effect on your own. Mind you I suppose it must save you money on rent boys. Now off you pop and get yourself a pair of clean underpants, there's a good fanboy.

Nikon launches D600 lightweight full-frame DSLR

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Still saving for an a99. At this price, a few hundred quid more for a much more versatile tool is a bargain in my book. If this Nikon had been as cheap as it was rumored it was going to be (it's nowhere near) then I might've changed my mind.

Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review

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Re: Thinth

This.

Not that I personally am interested in the iPhone, but if I was I'd be MUCH happier with a few more hours standby than a slightly thinner handset.

Apple Lightning adaptors reveal limitations

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Re: Easy come, easy go

Bismillah NO!

Ultimate bacon sarnie scrap starts to sizzle

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@ John H Woods Re: Congratulations

Both the mug and the rashers are in fact huge. The bap is about 5" diameter. Although I have to admit I wanted another one right afterwards so perhaps it was a bit on the small side portion-wise.

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Alert

Re: Bread

Bread maker? Oh do MTFU! Once you've perfected the art of making it yourself (don't listen to the doubters - it can be done quickly and cleanly) you'll never look back.

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Re: Orkney Dark Island + Bread

Must try that one

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What can I say, I like my baby tea when I have a hangover.

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Re: Perfect bacon sandwich

You sir, are a genius

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Re: Ketchup is a CRIME!

Dunno about that. English mustard is like a culinary neutron bomb. It leaves the matter intact, but wipes out every living molecule of flavour. Except, of course, said mustard.

Google's Nexus 7 tabs 'can't perform' if flash RAM crammed

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Gunwales

Thus spelt.

Gunnels? Tsk!

Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes

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Re: Rockbox? Apple Schmapple

Hence my recommendation of Sharepod first and foremost. Even if Rockbox does support the iPod Touch (something I can't be bothered checking) its UI is, ahem, an acquired taste. Definitely suited to those of a more masochistic bent.

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Re: Apple Schmapple

Sharepod - tiny executable, portable. Never touch iTunes again.

Or, as has already been suggested, Rockbox. If you really wanna geek out/feel superior. Mind you, the geeking out part is debatable these days since they moved to a pretty much one-click installer.

So, just what is the ultimate bacon sarnie?

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Megaphone

Re: Are you all MAD??

TESTIFY!

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Mushroom

Can't understand these commenters going on about the requirements for eggs, black pudding etc. I mean, these are all fantastic things to be admired and guzzled in equal measure (to my mind few things on this planet come close to the ecstasy that is a black pudding and egg butty with loads of butter and brown sauce) BUT... NONE OF THESE THINGS BELONG IN A BACON BUTTY! THE CLUE IS IN THE NAME PEOPLE!

Ghostbusters

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Happy

Hehe!

Spent hours playing this with my cousin on his CPC464 and had, until today, completely forgotten about it. Nice one Reg, that brought a smile to my face!

Samsung fights to stay on US shelves as Apple calls for ban

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Headmaster

Re: the reciprocity principle

What? "Vigorously instigated"...? WTF are you on about?

Please tell me English isn't your first language.

Jury awards Apple $1bn damages in Samsung patent case

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FAIL

Your first sentence = pure speculation and probable bollocks.

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Unhappy

Verdict's probably right, but the law is very wrong. Sad to see all the rejoicing from Apple fanboys, as it's shit for the whole industry and us end customers. I'm no fan of Samsung, but I hope the damages are reduced significantly on appeal. Companies must not be encouraged to take part in this shitty behaviour.

Police mistake reveals plan for Assange's Embassy capture

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Re: @Graham

All well and good, but it doesn't quite address the issue of why Assange himself decided to go down the road of maximum publicity, fluff pieces from some oddly mesmerised thralls in the liberal press (who he then mostly turned on when they began to question his erratic behaviour), maximum personal fundraising and a circus of high flying lawyers. Perhaps if he wasn't a giant arsewipe and kept his head below the parapet in the first place then the stories would still be about the leaks and not about his douchey behaviour.

The Oatmeal hits $850,000 goal for Tesla museum

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Re: Kickstarter is a great platform

"Running" != "creating"

Seems there is a foundation already set up for the running of it, presumably with their own funding plans. This crowd-sourcing is just for buying the site, not an ongoing funding plan.

Snap suggests Apple out to 'screw' hardware hackers

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Re: Apple-logo shaped screw-head

...unless said 3rd party screwdriver-makers only used a partial impression.

IT support bod? Whatever you earn, it's not enough

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Surprised nobody's posted this one yet;

http://xkcd.com/806/

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Re: helpdesk staff

Our first line contractor changes so frequently that I find myself guiding them through our call-logging process.

"ok is that everything, is there anything else I can help you with?"

"hang on, we're not done yet. You might want to take a note of..."

Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney'

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Re: How many fannbois will actually read the document though....[nah-nah not listening]

" So Androids rectangular products look nothing like Apple's but you feel Apple's is so close to the Sony design that it's theft?"

Slight misrepresentation there. I think the missing term would be "by Apple's logic". It's more of a hoist-by-one's-own-petard deal.

Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz

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Holmes

Prevarication Gabe

Blah blah, catastrophe, blah, ecosystem, blah blah platform.

We all know you're just trying to distract our attention from the fact that we're still not playing HL3.

Cockfighting Reg hack cursed with cancer

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Re: To be fair..

@ Martin Budden: So exactly how many of the n thousand people who read that article do you think sat back afterwards and thought to themselves: "Do you know what? I've had a change of heart. Cockfighting isn't the absolute embodiment of every single thing that's wrong about humankind after all"...?

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Re: To be fair..

Was he though? Since when did talking about something automatically constitute "promoting" it?

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Oh god

You *do* know how humourless and militant some of these fannies can be?

Oh hang on, of course you do. Lol, play on!

PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault

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"comprised of"

Back to school Mr Asay, it's either "comprises" or "consists of".

</pedant mode>

Being a skinny is much more unhealthy than being fat – new study

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FAIL

I'm in agreement with Lewis more often than most commenters on here, some of whom seem to want to attack him no matter what he says, but with this article he's taken his contrarian hobby horse into orbit. Get back on the defence desk Lewis - you're far more informative and entertaining there.

Fatties are 'destroying the world'

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<blockquote>As for the idea that cycling is dangerous, this really doesn't hold water. You have to cycle more than 20 million miles in the UK, spending hundreds of years in the saddle, before it's likely that you'll be killed. There's a lot of foolish fear of motor vehicles among UK cyclists or potential UK cyclists, but it's largely unjustified.</blockquote>

Hear hear - the idea that cycling is inherently dangerous is one that many people in Britain (on both sides of the cyclists v drivers debate) need to get out of their minds. It's doing nobody any favours.

iOS was SO much more valuable to Google than Android - until Maps

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Re: Licensing payments for search

@Hodma727.... WTF? Maybe you need to see your doctor about getting your medications upgraded. I was only asking a question. Dick.

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Licensing payments for search

Do Apple actually pay a license fee to have Google search on their iThings? Honest question. I've never owned one, but I would've assumed that Google search, certainly when done through the browser, is license free?

That being the case, what would the point be of Apple offering its own search, other than to take traffic away from Google (i.e. no cost saving to Apple)?

Gov mulls ban on wallet-draining charges for card payments

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Ticketmaster

Gits

Ten... celeb headphones

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Facepalm

Sigh

Never thought I'd see RegHardware turn into a chav dealer bling roundup bazaar.

I wish this whole "headphones as fashion statement" fad would just fuck off. I was in a Superdry shop today* and it says it all that in amongst the overpriced, over-branded, 14-million-variations-on-a-theme tat they are also now selling their own range of (presumably rebadged Skullcandy) cans, available in all the muted earth tones of the rainbow.

* I know, I know. In my defence I was with the missus, and don't worry I was rocking my best coder chic of black combats, black boots, ill-fitting black raincoat and black Front 242 t-shirt. I made the whole place about twenty degrees cooler just by being there.

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